EXPOSED: The Smear Campaign Against Trayvon Martin

[otherone]

1) Interesting...last month BO was the champion of underdog women everywhere.
2) This month, he'll be the reincarnation of MLK.

 

[Bruno]

It appears what is being exposed is the smear campaign against Zimmerman, and the false portrayal of Martin by the media and those wanting to exploit the situation for their own causes.

 

[Brett85]

What about the smear campaign against Zimmerman? He's already been convicted by the media before he's even been tried in court.

 

[Tonewah]

I think it’s obvious that this is an attempt to divide us, even more deeply, along racial lines. The truth is that we will NEVER know all of the details of this incident. He was a minor, which will keep a lot of the facts from coming out.

When I first saw this, I was enraged by the seemingly callous behavior of the police. The news has been running old pictures of the boy, looking VERY young, and he DID have a very youthful face, even at almost 18. I identified with him, as a kid, carrying my Skittles and a soft drink home from the corner store. If some strange 30-something man had been intimidating me, I would have tried to fight with all I had.

However, he was not a diminutive child, as has been portrayed. It has now come out that he was 6' 3", an athlete who was reportedly a football player and had a history of violence. He was on suspension from school and was temporarily staying in a racially-mixed neighborhood in which he was an unfamiliar person. Other members of the neighborhood watch, who happen to be black, have come out in defense of Zimmerman, and eyewitnesses corroborate his side of the story that the kid was violently attacking him.

None of this is grounds for execution, however.

There needs to be transparency into what occurred that night, but, when something negative about the kid comes out, his parents will claim that it was wrong for that information to be released, due to the fact that he was a minor. As much as I feel for the parents, I don't think parents are the most unbiased about their child's behavior. I know my parents wouldn't have believed some of the stupid stuff I did as a kid.

The police really messed this up. By not bringing the guy in and having an investigation that lasted more than a few questions, they opened themselves up to criticism. True, they may have found out enough information to satisfy themselves that it was self-defense without that but it obviously wasn't enough to satisfy the public. Something like this you could give to the DA, who could bring it to a grand jury, if they thought they had enough evidence, and they could either true bill or no bill him. You could have released him on his own recognizance in the interim.

 

[xFiFtyOnE]

I wonder if this would be a big deal if the media would have said that Zimmerman was Jewish/Hispanic, instead of saying he was white. And yes, I know that both hispanic and jewish can be considered white but it's not the usual type of white that the liberal media loves to vilify. I don't really have an opinion on whether the kid deserved to be shot, until more facts are released. But I'm allready tired of seeing the media coverage and the rallies and other BS, just beating the drums of endless racial division.

 

[jmdrake]

You need to understand, if people here don't justify Zimmerman, we're gonna start losing our guns and voluntary organizations like Neighborhood Watch. Most people in America are thinking of this in terms of race and guns, people here are particularly concerned about guns and voluntary watchdogs, because we're supposed to fear and hate the government.

I assume you're being facetious. If not then there is something that you need to understand. Attempts to justify Zimmerman are the fastest way to losing gun rights and neighborhood watch and stand your ground laws. That's because people in the middle who might be persuaded to be pro gun are going to look at this result and say "Oh my God! Exactly what the liberals were warning us about came true! Florida is becoming like the wild west with vigilante justice ruling the streets. Big federal government please save us!" I'm already convinced at this point that the Florida stand your ground law at least needs to be amended if the author of that law doesn't think it applies to the Trayvon matter but the police apparently do. That in itself proves the law is flawed.

 

[jmdrake]

In that picture I see a skinny kid who's not really "hard" trying to play cool like the rappers he sees on MTV by showing some fake gold teeth. He reminds me of my nephew who was never a gang banger by any stretch, went through a "stupid" phase where he was trying to dress the part to look cool, is thankfully out of it and is now an engineering major. What do you see?

Is this one fake too, or is that article meant to insinuate that several fake photos have been released so that a lot of people end up thinking it is?

 

[silverhandorder]

In that picture I see a skinny kid who's not really "hard" trying to play cool like the rappers he sees on MTV by showing some fake gold teeth. He reminds me of my nephew who was never a gang banger by any stretch, went through a "stupid" phase where he was trying to dress the part to look cool, is thankfully out of it and is now an engineering major. What do you see?

Did your nephew have a racially charged twitter as well and friends that can't spell? Just saying everything added up this guy isn't exactly a paragon of innocence him self. I don't care who is right or wrong in this. I am tired of real life trolls like Moo. I hope majority is just as fed up as me.

 

[jmdrake]

Did your nephew have a racially charged twitter as well and friends that can't spell? Just saying everything added up this guy isn't exactly a paragon of innocence him self. I don't care who is right or wrong in this. I am tired of real life trolls like Moo. I hope majority is just as fed up as me.

Do you hang out on a forum where people have at times posted racially charged statements? Yes.
Do you have friends who sumtimes sometimes misspell? I raise my hand.
Your point?

Edit: I just browsed threw through Trayvon's tweets. I fail to see the "racially charged" part.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/26/the-daily-caller-obtains-trayvon-martins-tweets/

Ignorant? Yes. Misogynist? Maybe. Racist? Are you kidding me? Because Trayvon called himself "nigga"? You're kidding me right?

Edit: There goes my bad spelling. (I type "threw" when I meant "through"). I guess if you get shot by a neighborhood block captain this thread will be cited in his defense.

 

[cajuncocoa]

IMO, which doesn't count for much, these stories coming out about TM are not "smears" but are character references that negate the propaganda set forth by the msm that TM was a 12-year old angelic Boy Scout who stepped out to get himself some candy during the halftime of a basketball game. THAT DOES NOT MEAN HE DESERVED TO BE KILLED BY ANY MEANS, but is an attempt to change the perception that has most people believing that it's not even possible that TM could have done something to provoke GZ.

 

[iGGz]

[[]]